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rivage|ˈraɪvɪdʒ| Also 4–6 ryuage, -vage; 5–7 riuage. [a. F. rivage (12–13th c.): see rive n.1 and -age. So It. rivaggio; med.L. rivagium (esp. in sense 3).] 1. A coast, shore, or bank. Now only poet.
13..Reinbroun xxix. 10 Þe cite on þe riuage hii sye. 1390Gower Conf. III. 329 The hihe festes of Neptune Upon the stronde at the rivage..Sollempneliche thei besihe. c1400St. Alexius (Laud 622) 592 He gan to shippen atte Ryuage; Wynde aroos wiþ wood rage. 1483Caxton Cato D vij, A good holy man which was on the ryuage of the see. 1490― Eneydos vii. 30 Dydo..arryued vpon the Ryuage of affryque for to repayre hir shyppes. 1523Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 40 Sum other Contraye in the possession of his enemye vpon the Ryvage of the see. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 20 The golden sand, The which Pactolus..Throwes forth upon the rivage. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. ii. 5 Having imbattelled themselves neere unto the rivage. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 161 The River full of Ships,..the rivage full of sea-faring men. 1661Evelyn Fumifugium Misc. Writ. (1805) i. 208 The scent of the orange flowers from the rivage of Genoa.
1814Cary Dante, Inf. xxix. vii, So mov'd she on, against the current, up The verdant rivage. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 100 The dreadful rivages, and brawling floods. attrib.1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. xvi, Ryght by anone the rivage syde, She cast an anker. 1513Douglas æneis vi. v. 44 This sorofull boitman..sum..maid to stand Fer from the rivage syde upon the sand. †2. Arrival at, landing on, a shore. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 6079 Kyng Alisaunder, and his baronage, Haveth y-take god ryuage. c1475Partenay 2734 Hys brother..At vavuent that day riuage gan purchas. c1500Melusine 114 The patrons made theire recommendacions to god..that by hys benygne grace he wyl graunte to them good ryuage. †3. Shore or river dues. Obs. Quot. 1598 is translated from a charter of 1278.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 117 So that they shall be free..from all lastage, tallage, passage, cariage, riuage. [1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Rivage,..a certain Toll, or Duty anciently paid to the King, in some Rivers, for the Passage of Boats, or Vessels.] Hence † ˈrivaging, the act of making up or repairing the bank of a stream. Obs.
1610W. Folkingham Art Surv. ii. ii. 50 Sewaging, rilling, brooking, riuaging, foording. |